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If you have forgotten your email login, please contact  subject Workday Candidate Login\nWhen creating your Workday account and entering personal information like name, address, please do not use ALL CAPS.\nThank you!\nNOTICE: For Privacy Policy please review here\nJob Responsibilities:\nAs a Linguist, your primary responsibility is to manage translation and copy-editing tasks, ensuring high-quality linguistic deliverables across assigned projects and accounts. The role involves translating and post-editing marketing, UI, legal, and other content between English and Hindi while preserving the original intent, tone, and purpose for the target audience. Proficiency in CAT tools and localization processes, along with excellent communication skills and a passion for language, are essential for delivering impactful, audience-focused content.As a Linguist, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality localization services, including translation, post-editing, proofreading, and linguistic review activities across various projects. Your focus will be on producing natural, accurate, and culturally appropriate content in Hindi while ensuring alignment with the source text's intent, tone, and communication objectives.\nYou will work on a diverse range of content types, such as marketing, user interface strings, legal documentation, training materials, presentations, and multimedia assets. The role requires strong linguistic judgment to adapt content effectively for the target audience while maintaining consistency, quality, and adherence to client-specific guidelines. Depending on project needs, you may also be involved in content creation, transcreation, and terminology management.\nSuccess in this role requires excellent command of both English and Hindi, strong attention to detail, and the ability to balance linguistic accuracy with audience engagement. Familiarity with CAT tools, localization workflows, and quality assurance processes is essential. The ideal candidate demonstrates ownership, effective communication skills, adaptability, and a commitment to delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced environment.\nThe following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role:\nMAIN DUTIES\nPerform translation, post-editing, copy-editing, and proofreading tasks between English and Hindi using designated translation and localization tools.\n\nHandle a wide range of content types, including marketing materials, UI strings, creative content, legal content, and other localized assets, adapting the level of creativity as required.\n\nReview and understand project requirements, target audience expectations, and machine translation (MT) quality before starting assignments.\n\nEffectively utilize CAT tools and other supporting platforms required for localization work, such as query management systems and UI review tools.\n\nAdhere to established workflows and processes, including raising queries, reporting issues, and proactively communicating risks or blockers to relevant stakeholders.\n\nEnsure compliance with client-specific style guides, terminology databases, linguistic standards, and quality requirements.\n\nContinuously improve performance by incorporating feedback received through internal and external quality evaluations.\n\nMonitor personal quality metrics and error trends, and actively work on identified improvement areas.\n\nParticipate in internal training sessions, knowledge-sharing initiatives, and client-led training programs.\n\nContribute to error review and arbitration discussions to support quality improvement and consistency.\n\nMeet defined productivity, quality, and turnaround-time targets.\n\nAttend internal quality meetings and client quality review calls, contributing constructively to discussions and action plans.\n\nDemonstrate a growth mindset by regularly assessing skill gaps and seeking guidance from language leads and management to enhance performance and professional development.\n\nREQUIREMENTS\nBachelor’s degree in Translation, Applied Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Journalism, Communications, or a related field preferred.\n\nNative or near-native proficiency in Hindi and strong command of English.\n\nExperience or demonstrated interest in creative localization, translation, transcreation, copywriting, content writing, or Hindi content creation. Exposure to blogging, video scripts, voice-over scripts, web content, marketing communications, magazines, newspapers, or digital media content is an advantage. Fresh graduates with exceptional language skills and a passion for creative writing are encouraged to apply.\n\nStrong comprehension skills in English with the ability to accurately translate, transcreate, post-edit, copy-edit, and proofread content according to client requirements and target audience needs.\n\nExcellent written Hindi with a keen eye for grammar, style, consistency, and linguistic accuracy.\n\nAbility to identify, analyze, and resolve linguistic, terminology, and localization-related issues.\n\nFamiliarity with CAT tools and localization workflows; experience with industry-standard localization platforms is a plus.\n\nStrong verbal and written communication skills.\n\nDetail-oriented mindset with a commitment to delivering high-quality, error-free work.\n\nPositive attitude, willingness to learn, and openness to constructive feedback.\n\nAbility to collaborate effectively in a team-oriented environment while managing individual responsibilities.\n\nThe following is a 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